"Jeder Mensch ist ein Abgrund, es schwindelt einem, wenn man hinabsieht."
a man prone to compulsive acts caught in social conflict , depending on a cruel need for money and humiliating himself by necessity and by instability of character, young and immature, weak and maybe not so weak, not well educated, again humiliated and insulted as an inferior being by officers, abused as a laboratory animal by a doctor, rather poisoned and weakened physically and mentally by a diet of peas only, betrayed by his pregnant love who couldn't trust in him as he had started to hear voices and showed all signs of schizophrenia, the doom dark and burning in the sky:
a drama where in the end only emotions rule, feeding halluzinations, and a man who could only see a way of freeing himself from suffering by self destruction finding an end with the murder of his love. an act of despair and senseless rebellion.
not only to be seen as political but as an elementally important warning in the spirit of time.
and for me personally an educational experience.
the peformance was excellent, the project can be called a full success.
PS: i quite appreciated the doctor making his patient depending on drugs, calling them peas...
and Woyzeck declaring that one cannot bear life without drugs, a modern interpretation.
Unfortunately at the time of Buechner really not so few poor people were test persons for a medical experiment which was founded on economic deliberations: can poor people live on a poor diet, cheap peas only, cost efficieny in slavery.
see link.
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